LED lights have seen a rapid increase in market share in recent years, and one just can’t help wondering why they are so popular. One reason may be that LED lights are in rich types and forms, thus being able to satisfy a wide range of lighting needs. But the key reason is that LED lights work totally differently from traditional bulbs do.

Though they are right now the hot offer of the lighting market, the LED lights have been around for a long while, since the ’60s when they were first planned and developed for industrial use. From that time on, the industry have been improving the way these little but strong lamps work and emit light, which is exactly the reason why they got so popular out of a sudden.

LEDs are light-emitting diodes, and different, for example, from incandescent lamps, the way they emit light is a much more simple process since they don’t rely on specific materials to be heated. Tungsten is the material used in incandescent lamps, and you might have noticed, they have to get really hot because the filament of the metal is intended to be so hot it emits light! LEDs don’t work like that, so is quite simple to understand how they are more economic because, the amount of energy necessary to heat something – especially metals – is really big. LED lights work with diodes who transport electrons and in the process, they emit photons simply by doing this exchange, with no need to ablaze a material.

Other key feature of LEDs is the fact they consume much less energy and they do emit much more light because they are quite small sets of lamps. Though recently industry is developing better ways to make LED lights fit to illuminate a room, like conventional lamps, they are extremely useful sources of dim lights, like interior spotlights, and lampshades. The automotive industry is also increasingly making use of these lamps, since they are much more brighter and, once again, energy saving, something really essential for cars and other automotive vehicles that rely on battery.

And what about those beautiful set of colorful decorative wall lights? They are also made of LED lights. This is also something only LEDs can provide with economy, colorful illumination. In detriment to neon technologies, they can emit many different pallets of colors and also be programmed to light on and off with different timing and coordination. That’s why you will also see these lamps used to craft smartphone screens, tablets and, of course, television sets, which will consume much less energy.

LED lights have many advantages and these advantages envision a bright future for this kind of lights. One can now find LED lights used in many ways and places. What’s more, they are flexible to be improved; therefore, we may get better and better LED lights probably soon.